Seth Curry will undergo season-ending leg surgery after missing full year to date, per report

Seth Curry’s lost season is officially over, as the Dallas Mavericks guard will undergo surgery on his left tibia that will take 12 to 14 weeks to recover from, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Curry had not played a game this season with a stress fracture in his leg that healed slowly and ultimately led to this decision.

Curry is expected to be back on the court by July 1, when he will enter free agency after two years in Dallas. It was expected he was set for a major payday after his breakout season last year, where he averaged 12.8 points and 2.7 assists while shooting 42.5 percent from behind the arc. Instead, the lingering stress fracture will cost him this season may change teams’ outlook on the 27-year-old scoring guard.

It has been a longer path to the NBA for Stephen Curry’s younger brother, but the combo guard is firmly an NBA player now, assuming his health returns fully. Seth Curry spent five years in college, including one as a redshirt, and bounced around the league until the Sacramento Kings gave him a real chance to close out the 2015-16 season. Curry averaged seven points with a True Shooting Percentage over 60, and carried that performance into a two-year, $6 million deal in Dallas.

Last week, Curry described surgery as a “last resort.”

“The thing with bone injuries, you don’t know how long they take to heal without having surgery on it,” Curry told The Dallas Morning News. “I was hoping to be back in a month. With stress injuries, you don’t know how long it’s going to take a bone to heal.”

Dallas has described Curry as a part of their future, but it’s impossible to predict what the market will look like for the shooting guard this summer.